Picturing Machines 1400-1700

LeFevre, Wolfgang

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2023-12-26
  • 售價: $2,100
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,995
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 354
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262550881
  • ISBN-13: 9780262550888
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How technical drawings shaped early engineering practice.

Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of new methods of graphic representation. These drawings--among them Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawings of mechanical devices--have long been studied for their aesthetic qualities and technological ingenuity, but their significance for the architects and engineers themselves is seldom considered. The essays in Picturing Machines 1400-1700 take this alternate perspective and look at how drawing shaped the practice of early modern engineering. They do so through detailed investigations of specific images, looking at over 100 that range from sketches to perspective views to thoroughly constructed projections.

In early modern engineering practice, drawings were not merely visualizations of ideas but acted as models that shaped ideas. Picturing Machines establishes basic categories for the origins, purposes, functions, and contexts of early modern engineering illustrations, then treats a series of topics that not only focus on the way drawings became an indispensable means of engineering but also reflect the main stages in their historical development. The authors examine the social interaction conveyed by early machine images and their function as communication between practitioners; the knowledge either conveyed or presupposed by technical drawings, as seen in those of Giorgio Martini and Leonardo; drawings that required familiarity with geometry or geometric optics, including the development of architectural plans; and technical illustrations that bridged the gap between practical and theoretical mechanics.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

如何技術圖紙塑造了早期工程實踐

文藝復興時期的建築師和工程師所繪製的技術圖紙運用了多種新的圖形表現方法。這些圖紙——其中包括達文西著名的機械裝置圖——長期以來因其美學特質和技術巧思而受到研究,但對於建築師和工程師自身的意義卻鮮少被考量。《Picturing Machines 1400-1700》中的文章採取了這種替代視角,探討了繪圖如何塑造早期現代工程的實踐。它們通過對特定圖像的詳細調查來實現這一點,研究了超過100幅從草圖到透視圖再到精心構建的投影的作品。

在早期現代的工程實踐中,圖紙不僅僅是思想的可視化,而是作為塑造思想的模型。《Picturing Machines》建立了早期現代工程插圖的起源、目的、功能和背景的基本類別,然後探討了一系列主題,這些主題不僅專注於圖紙如何成為工程不可或缺的手段,還反映了它們在歷史發展中的主要階段。作者考察了早期機械圖像所傳達的社會互動及其作為從業者之間溝通的功能;技術圖紙所傳達或假設的知識,如喬治·馬丁尼和達文西的作品;需要熟悉幾何或幾何光學的圖紙,包括建築計劃的發展;以及在實用與理論力學之間架起橋樑的技術插圖。

作者簡介

Wolfgang Lefèvre is Senior Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He is the author or editor of several other books.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

沃爾夫岡·勒費夫爾是柏林馬克斯·普朗克科學史研究所的高級科學家。他是幾本其他書籍的作者或編輯。